Night World Players

Chapter 71 You Don’t Understand the “Shore Keeper” (Part )

Mottled fragments of time, like peeling paint on a wall, constantly appear around Gray.

The entire Dongshui Town, including the dim sky, was covered with cracks.

Just now, Gray made her choice.

It is not about choosing death as a final solution.

It is not about choosing to continue indulging in false dreams and being unwilling to face reality.

But -

Admit your own weakness and also admit the sins you have committed in the past.

Carry the weight of other people's lives and face your own future.

Even though... this future might not be as beautiful as the fantasy in front of us, and it would end in a dead end, it doesn't matter.

Because that is the future that belongs only to Gray.

Neither the evil god nor fate has the right to take away or defile something.

Before that——

All Gray needs to do is to break the frozen water town in front of her with her own hands.

Break this beautiful dream that she had woven with her own hands.

……

On the other side, in Rast's mind, a series of azure blue prompt messages were slowly passing by.

[Promotion Mission "Tower": Find out the truth about the Frozen Water Town shrouded in fog.]

【Promotion mission completed】

[Your Arcana Sequence Long Level "Tower" has been promoted to the second level]

[The Library of Fools has gained new power]

[Tower Pilot (Unlocked): The second-tier ability of the Tower sequence. Your eyes can see through the fog and darkness. You will never lose your way even in the darkest sea of light.]

As expected, the ability of the second level of the Tower Sequence Master is "Pilot".

Last looked at the lines of azure blue text in his mind and was not surprised.

Although in the present world, the extraordinary knowledge inheritance of the long-stage "Tower" sequence has disappeared, the general description of the ability and effect of this long-stage sequence has been passed down.

If not for this, when she first met Hiltina in Deep Blue Harbor, she would not have immediately identified herself as a night traveler of the "Tower" sequence.

boom--

In that mottled and broken world.

In the distant direction, the bright and exciting light of the morning star suddenly burst out again.

Did Hiltina launch "Real Name Release" again?
As soon as such a thought arose.

The next moment, a new azure blue prompt message flashed through Rast's mind.

[Your "bond" with Hiltina Ingrid deepens, and the "Fool's Library" gains new power]

[The current bond level of "Chariot" Shiltina has been increased from 3 to 4]

[You have unlocked a new original text]

[Night Blade "Infinite Sword"——Everything is a weapon has been unlocked]

What on earth happened to Hiltina that forced her to use "Real Name Release" twice in a row?

The price of doing so would most likely be the complete destruction of the "Shining Morning Star".

Moreover, it seemed that during this process, the bond between him and Hiltina had been further strengthened.

However, Rast quickly withdrew all his complicated thoughts.

Hiltina bet all her hopes of clearing the Echoes of the Disaster on herself, using a method of giving someone a taste of their own medicine.

So, no matter what happened to Xiltina, all he could do was to trust.

At this moment, it was the only thing he needed to care about.

That is, to completely clear the entire Dongshui Town... and the entire reverberation of the disaster.

……

Snap——

Snap——

The cracking sounds continued one after another, transforming into fragments of light.

This is a great test for Grey.

Due to countless restarts, Dongshui Town has long been transformed into a chaotic area with disordered time and space and countless time cracks intertwined.

What she needs to do now is to stop relying on mental fluctuations and unconsciously mobilize the great force that can disturb time and space.

Instead, you should actively contact and control that power with your own spirit and will.

So that it no longer runs wild at will and without control, but can be completely used for your own benefit.

Then, the Dongshui Town in the chaotic time and space before his eyes was completely annihilated, and the original laws of time and space were restored.

This is undoubtedly an extremely difficult process, as it is a powerful force that can disrupt time and space and interfere with fate... As long as there is a slight mistake in Grey's control, the consequences may be irreversible.

But this is not the biggest obstacle she faces.

In the night sky, the hideous and wriggling scarlet blood moon suddenly rolled up.

The blood mist rose in the entire town, rolling violently like boiling water, forming one twisted whirlpool after another.

Then, Gray's ears suddenly heard crazy whispers.

A hint of blood appeared in her agate-like emerald eyes, showing a sense of struggle.

At the same time, the blood mist suddenly spread and attacked Last and Gray.

This is a counterattack from the source of pollution in Dongshui Town.

In Grey's countless restarts of time distortion, this old Frozen Water Town has condensed with the pollutants from the source of the blood mist and twisted into an indivisible whole.

At this moment, Grey wants to face the future and shatter the dream of Frozen Water Town.

Then, when this distorted time is corrected... it also means that the pollutants that have merged with Dongshui Town will also be wiped out during the corrected time.

Such actions naturally caused fierce resistance from pollutants.

Even though all the silk puppets had been annihilated into nothingness by the light liberated by their true names, the blood mist that filled the sky, the power of the pollutant itself, still existed.

Originally, under the protection of that invisible fate, the pollutants could not really harm Gray.

Whenever Grey is faced with death, the invisible fate will lead her to another development path.

But at this moment, Gray was trying to actively restrain, suppress, and control that uncontrollable power with her own will.

Turn the ripples of fate into your own power, no longer just be stimulated unconsciously, but be able to control it as you wish.

But this also means that the protection that fate had given her had been forcibly suppressed by Grey herself and no longer existed.

At this moment, she is no longer the darling favored by fate, but just an ordinary person who is powerless.

……

"No...Brother Luster..."

"I can't suppress the source of the pollution in Frozen Water Town."

Gray only had time to leave these short words.

next moment.

boom--

The blood mist rushed over recklessly, completely engulfing the figures of Last and Gray.

The moment he was engulfed by the blood mist, thousands of crazy whispers began to ring in Last’s heart.

Madness, despair, depravity, anger and many other negative emotions... in an instant, along with the mumbling, they all flooded into Rast's mind. If we want to briefly summarize the content of these chaotic mumblings.

It is probably something like "Suddenly there is a madman sharpening his knife at night, the imperial star is swaying and Mars is high in the sky", "Heaven created all things to nourish man, but man has no virtue to repay Heaven".

If it were an ordinary person, he might not be able to withstand even a second of mumbling, and would immediately become a slave to the blood mist, no different from those puppets that have lost their self.

Trapped in Frozen Water Town, bound in distorted time, and experiencing thousands of cycles of reincarnation... it seems that the pollutant state at the source of the blood mist has become somewhat manic.

At this moment, the protection lingering on Grey finally dissipated, and the blood mist suddenly became crazy, trying to engulf Last and Grey, pollute them, and finally corrupt them into their own slaves.

At the same time, it can also use this opportunity to obtain the power of destiny that it has coveted for a long time from Gray.

"Brother Rast, I can't hold on any longer."

"kill me……"

"As long as you kill me now... the distorted time in the entire Frozen Water Town, as well as the source of pollution, will be buried with me."

"Then you and Sister Hiltina will be able to escape."

"kill me……"

A young girl's wailing could be heard from the blood mist.

She was begging Lust to kill her... before her own will was completely corrupted by the blood mist and she became a slave to the pollutant and turned against Lust.

Grey had also sought death before, but her state of mind was completely different each time.

The first time she asked for death was because she believed that death would be able to pay off all the sins and karma she owed, and bring her relief once and for all.

It is said to be a request for death, but in fact it is more like a form of escape.

But at this moment, Gray's desire to die is to protect others.

He buried the Red Moon pollutant at the cost of killing himself, so that Hiltina and Last could escape from the desperate situation of Frozen Water Town, and also protect many strangers from the invasion of pollutants.

However, the next moment.

Suddenly, Rast's chuckle rang in Gray's ears.

He walked up to Gray and gently touched the little girl's gray, messy hair that was covered in dust.

Obviously, Last himself was also swallowed by the blood mist, and even his body was covered with dense blood veins. He was suffering from the same pollution as Grey. For Grey, the messy and crazy muttering only took a few seconds, but it had already caused her to lose most of her self-will and mind.

But Rast's bloodshot eyes were still clear and bright, like bright stars hanging in the lake.

“I don’t like stories that have to kill or sacrifice someone at the end in order to make everything complete and memorable.”

"Some people always say that tragedy can leave a deep impression on the audience, make them never forget it, and elevate the theme... But in my opinion, the source of all tragedies is simply because the protagonist of the story is weak and miserable."

"Not only is he weak in body and strength, but he is also weak in spirit."

"Because of their physical weakness, the protagonists of tragic stories can only watch others sacrifice themselves for them, but they can do nothing."

"Because of his weakness, he would only cry in grief or rage helplessly after sacrifices and tragedies...but he never thought of standing up before the tragedy ended—"

"With my own hands, I turned the originally imperfect ending of the story into what everyone expected."

Last's words were very calm, and there was no sign that he was standing in the blood mist, enduring such crazy delirium and pollution.

"Now the only obstacle is the pollutants at the source of the blood mist."

"Then, wouldn't it be fine if we just smash the source of all this?"

"No way!"

Gray's consciousness was already a little unclear in the mumbling, but after hearing Last's words, she still let out an urgent cry.

"I can feel that the blood moon is just a projection."

"The real source of the pollution is hidden in the blood mist. The blood mist will constantly produce illusions and interference... and the source of the pollution can change its position at any time in the blood mist, so it is impossible to find it."

“It’s not that no one has tried to decipher the source of the pollution in the blood mist before, but they all ended up getting lost in the depths of the blood mist…”

Gray thought of the weak and sloppy uncle Ford, who was the first shore guard she met in Frozen Water Town.

At the beginning, he wore the armor pieced together with the superpower of "origami magic", walked step by step into the depths of the blood mist, and never came back.

And at this moment.

Brother Rast...seems to be heading down the same path as Uncle Foden.

This made Gray unable to help but speak out to stop it, wanting to stop an act that in her eyes was no different from seeking death.

She has enough sins to bear.

She didn't want to see anyone die because of her.

But, the next moment.

Gray felt the hand that was touching her head gently loosen.

The hands were not thick, but the joints were distinct and they were warm.

“No need to take any risks.”

"You don't have to bet your life, you can easily change the ending of an originally tragic story by betting everything you have...

"There is no such good thing in this world."

"But the difference between a weak-minded person and a strong-minded person...is that the former will only feel hatred and regret after everything is irreversible."

"And those who are truly spiritually strong, even if they die, will only die on the road to rewriting the ending."

Rast's words remained calm, and a pitch-black bayonet fell silently into his hands.

Around him, the blood mist seemed to have seen through the content of their conversation and began to surge up in layers.

Thousands of illusions emerged in the blood mist, occupying his entire field of vision.

Canaan, Star University, Xiao Ai, Xiltina...

There was even his past in Deep Blue Harbor, the eight-point black silk lead dancer, the female councillor, the Iron Cross, the coachman, the Iron Cross leader and the Marine Captain Langlai...

Thousands of complicated phantoms appeared alternately in front of Last, trying to distract his attention and prevent him from discovering the real body in the blood mist.

However, faced with the myriad of magnificent illusions that were closely related to him, Rast simply clenched the bayonet in his hand in silence.

"So, Gray..."

"You still don't know enough about the "Shore Watcher."

"It's never a question of whether you can win or not, or how likely you are to succeed."

"But we have to stand here and do it to protect something."

Rust's wrist flipped slightly.

The arc of light from the bayonet flashed and disappeared.

When the arc light dissipated, Rast's eye sockets had become empty and bloody.

And on top of the bayonet, there was an extra complete eyeball.

This is a scene that is difficult for ordinary people to understand. Just seeing it will cause people to feel phantom pain. It is difficult to imagine how much pain such self-mutilation will bring.

But Rast's voice still transcended the blood mist and rang clearly in Gray's ears.

"The 'shore guard' you admire is actually not as glamorous as you imagined..."

"They are actually a group of people who are desperately trying to make bold statements and to look good in public—"

"Just a lunatic."

After saying that, Last locked the last remaining empty original text slot in the "Library of Fools" on "Infinity Sword: All Things Are Martial".

The next moment, the Night Blade was activated.

He gave the concept of "weapon" to the eye in his hand that he had cut off with his own hands.

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PS: 1w3 update completed.

In addition, the title of the book will be changed in a few days. The new title is tentatively "Night World Players". Don't get lost QWQ
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